Redistogo Price Increase (on Heroku)

Surprised and a little disheartened to see the cost of cloud infrastructure increasing in this case. I'm so used to Amazon decreasing end-user costs as their costs go down.

I'm wondering if its related to underestimating support costs, freeloaders in the Nano tier, or if it's an experiment in pricing elasticity.

Note: old prices (emphasized), via Google's cache, added to original email below.

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Dear Redistogo User,

We're contacting you to inform you of a price increase for the Redistogo add-on. Effective today, the new monthly pricing will be as follows:

Nano - free

Mini - $9 (up from $5)

Small - $39 (up from $25)

Medium - $169 (up from $110)

Large - $390 (up from $300)

Super - $1200 (up from $1000)

More details on features can be found at http://addons.heroku.com/redistogo.

As an existing user your current pricing will remain for 30 days. On August 24, 2012 your service plan will switch to the new pricing.

Best,

The Heroku Add-ons Team